Dont underestimate Huawei's stratospherical rise. Their products are 95% as good as Apple's and Samsung's at half the price and people are getting curious about them, its only a matter of time before they eat into the big Two's pie. Now if they want to delve into the gaming hand-held market, especially considering how desperate game Devs are to penetrate the Chinese market, I would pay attention.

They may have good products but their quality control sucks. P20 pro my friend recently got and it just feels like something is wrong with the OS. Like a cheap Chinese phone at times where it doesn't want to play smoothly.

I was tempted in getting a p20 pro going from a Samsung s8, I'm glad I didn't. Ended up with the note 9 which is a great phone (but tbh any phablet with dual speakers would've done me).

You honestly think Huawei can go up against Nintendo in the handheld department? Even Sony failed at doing so. This thing will be forgetten in a year (if it is that lucky) when a newer model comes out.

You should really try to understand what others say first. I would never say that. I was simply saying that they can surely enter the handheld arena if they take it as seriously as with their normal phone line up, if that area is anything to go by.

Kosic,

Everyone I know, former Apple and Samsung owners have only the best things to say about their P20 Pros, so to my knowledge Huawei has been ok so far and a worthy contender to my cash when I'm ready to move on from my S9+.

Well if you think about it in japan mobile gaming has a better hold of the casual market. Fate/Grand order had a revenue of $2 billion, and you also get a bunch of indie mobile games, fortnite and also pubg has mobile support, and also on china never really got into console or portable gaming, and Pc and mobile games are really making an impact on china's gaming market.

the people that pay $1000 for a phone aren't doing it because it plays games similar to the switch. for that, just buy a switch for $300....believe it or not, the biggest selling point of any phone is it's camera capabilities and software.

"exclusives", you mean those 10000+ games that android has have just vanished into thin air???

Every top of the line phone as great sales, this will just increase those sales a bit more, and there should be 200x more smarthphones in the world then there are Nintendo Switch's, so is a very safe bet, the phone will still sell to those that do not play.

Not a chance. This thing is comically large, like that's just way too big for a phone. It's extremely expensive, and you know those controller add-ons aren't going to be included. It's also still handcuffed to mobile phone games which means the phone's selling point won't even matter.

Really...the Cell phone market in general is hilariously overpriced for the tech that's included. Even all these new fancy features they include don't cost much. Most expensive feature in years was that curved screen on that one Samsung, and that was because the tech was extremely new and not generally available to the consumer market yet.

If people stopped paying that much for all these fancy new features which didn't amount to much, most of these new phones would probably go for less than $300, if not $200. Most of the money charged is for the excessively large marketing budgets for the next big thing.

7" is obviously already a tablet. several years ago, even 6" was quite a size. I considered the Xperia Z Ultra I had back then which has a 6" display as a tablet but nowadays with tiny bezels, the 6" Xperia XA1 Ultra doesn't even feel that big and feels more like a phone than a tablet. remember when the 1st Galaxy Note came out with just over 5" display and we considered it as too big? LOL good times!

Dedicated gaming systems will always trump phones that can also do mobile games, it's pathetic. Good luck taking on a system that is $300 and is flying off of shelves, especially in Japan which this is probably marketed towards mainly.

If Nintendo included the rather cheap hardware to make something into a cell phone, they could really obliterate the market. I really don't think some people would have a problem having a phone that large. They'd have to slim it down a bit, but I can see something like that being hugely popular. I was kind of shocked that Sony didn't have that in their PSVita with the ability to connect to cell networks, since it had both a speaker and a microphone, and all the hardware was there for cell phone access. Was kind of large for a phone, but for the price, and it being a strong portable console, I think it would have been really popular.

Yeah, i knew there was a workaround, but I was speaking more of an actual machine that could double as a regular cell phone with an actual Cell phone integration. To really get that kind of market, you need to make it a feature that's built in and with the OS stuff integrated in.

Only downside would be that it wouldn't have a lot of access to many smart phone apps that people really like.

7.2" phone. I'm really unsure who that would be aimed at. The note 9 for me is a tad large. But is in that perfect size for pocket media. I doubt I'd carry around a tablet as my main phone design. (Or is the mate series a tablet and not a phone?).